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The Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA) recently released a position statement regarding the availability of succinylcholine and dantrolene in ambulatory and office-based surgery facilities that do not provide general anesthesia with inhalational agents. Which of the following is least consistent with their recommendations?

Class B ambulatory and office-based surgery facilities provide oral, parenteral, or intravenous (I.V.) sedation and analgesic or dissociative drugs for minimally or moderately invasive surgical procedures. They do not provide general anesthesia with inhalational agents. These facilities are not required to stock dantrolene if patients are not exposed to known MH triggers. Thus, they often do not stock succinylcholine, as its presence could be interpreted as meaning that dantrolene must be available.